The Boring Way to Get to AI Taking Over Everything

There's a lot of conversation about how AI could go bad at an existential level. Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation , warning that Anthropic and OpenAI are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." AI could also end up in control through a much slower, more ordinary process. One way to think about the existential risk from AI is to realize that the less competent tend to end up relying on the more competent.